by John Freund, CM | Jun 27, 2014 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Social media giving homeless a hand up rather a handout R.D. Plasschaert credits one main thing for pulling her out of homelessness: Twitter. “Social media is the reason I was moved out of homelessness,” Plasschaert said. “The government agencies, shelters and others...
by John Freund, CM | Mar 17, 2014 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
What if you are a smartphone owner who needs food stamps? Or you want to access a “daily deal” that offers free museum admissions to low-income New York City families? While there are no apps for that, increasingly there’s a demand for smartphone software that serves...
by John Freund, CM | Sep 18, 2013 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Systemic change
Perhaps an unlikely pairing of topics. But the Center for Financial Inclusion describes how these concepts can be dynamically related. “If you want your message to be heard, go to where your intended audience is. If that intended audience is teenagers in the...
by John Freund, CM | Jul 29, 2012 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Perhaps not quite in the category of “Ripley’s Believe It or Not”, of 6.8 billion people on the planet. 4.0 billion of them own a mobile phone, but only 3.5 billion of them own a toothbrush. Here are 24 other facts that might surprise you…...
by John Freund, CM | Apr 15, 2012 | Vincentian Family
Join our online gathering, “Matthew 25 in a era of mobile devices,” beginning at 1 p.m. EDT on Saturday, April 28, 2012. For more information visit http://mobile.vinfamily.org/, follow us on Facebook and Twitter. For six weeks a group of trail-blazers have...
